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Web apps for Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Find my iPhone will indeed be part of iCloud when Apple makes the transition from MobileMe, the company confirmed in a new Q&A document on Friday. What won't be included in the transition, however, will be iWeb and iDisk, which will disappear when MobileMe service ends in June of 2012.

The announcement that Apple's Web apps will continue as part of iCloud should come as no surprise, but there was some debate immediately following the iCloud announcement as to whether Apple planned to kill them off along with MobileMe. That much has been settled now, with Apple reassuring users that they'll still be able to get at their e-mail, contacts, and calendars through a Web interface on iCloud.com.

Still, the fears of all three iWeb users have been confirmed, with Apple telling users that they should consider moving their iWeb-published sites to another host before June 30, 2012. Similarly, MobileMe Galleries will be going away—Apple says to make sure to keep local copies of all photos and videos uploaded there. The same applies to iDisk and MobileMe's syncing services: "Syncing of Mac Dashboard widgets, keychains, Dock items, and System Preferences will not be part of iCloud, but will continue to be available for you to use until you move to iCloud," Apple wrote. "After you move to iCloud or after June 30, 2012, whichever comes first, those sync services will no longer be available."

The Q&A document answers a handful of other questions, such as whether users can merge different iTunes and MobileMe accounts (the answer is no), and whether MobileMe family pack members can transition their accounts individually to iCloud (the answer is yes). The iCloud launch is still scheduled for "this fall," which is likely to coincide with the iOS 5 launch and possible new iPhone hardware.

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Jacqui Cheng
Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. Emailjacqui@arstechnica.com//Twitter@eJacqui